Attendees: Faith Klareich (FK), Doug Beard (DB), Carl Henn (CH), Alicia Hosmer (AH), Jerry Leighton (JL), Tolulope Odunlami (TO), Geoff Sanders (GS), Jaskaran Singh (JS) and Nate Wall (NW)

Absent: None

Agenda:

1. Welcome, News and Agenda Review
The meeting was called to order at 7:40pm in the City Manager’s Conference Room at Rockville City Hall.

2. Review and Approval of 6/14 Minutes
CH moves, JL seconds to adopt the minutes as prepared for the 6/14 meeting.  Motion passes with unanimous vote.

3. Tree Maintenance Position Paper edits from M&C Worksession
NW explained the changes made to the document following the June 20th Mayor & Council worksession.  These changes were made both from notes taken during the meeting and from watching the taped Rockville Channel broadcast.  CH agreed that the changes reflected what was said during the worksession.  The EC unanimously votes to accept paper as written as final.

4. Meeting with City Manager at September Meeting
FK decided to defer meeting with City Manager until September.

• JL to prepare agenda for Sept. meeting with City Manager.  JL requests a brief (two line) description of each Commissioner’s background/interests for packet.

5. Joint Meeting with Traffic & Transportation Commission
NW explained that goal of this joint meeting would be discussion of a comprehensive transportation noise policy (CTNP) for Rockville.  Currently, there are no policies in place regarding transportation noise and development / redevelopment.

• FK requests advance agenda; NW to provide to EC.
• CH, JL, JS and GS all interested in attending this meeting w/ FK.
• Commissioners to submit any advance noise issues to FK & NW.

6. Filling Vacancy
FK has coordinated with Councilmember Hall regarding filling the final vacancy, thus the EC is free to vote on the matter.

• EC votes unanimously to recommend to the Mayor & Council that Kris Dighe be appointed to fill the final vacancy on the Commission.

7. Working Group Abstracts
AH, DB and TO submitted their workgroup abstracts for discussion.

• DB and TO to modify their abstracts to be more accessible to public.
• NW to check into getting a write-up in the September Rockville Reports.

8. Annual Environmental Summit
FK mentioned that the EC agreed at a past meeting to have CWP present at the summit; now other logistics work needs to happen.  Concerning date: either before Nov. 1, or after mid-March seems best -- general consensus to schedule for late-March.  Content: how broad to make this?

• AH to work with NW to determine scope of CWP presentation.

Location: Last year’s summit was held in the Senior Center – is this an acceptable location?  This leads in to size: do we have a target size?  Who will be invited to attend?  Target civic associations with upcoming stream restoration in the CIP?  How about the general public, local environmental groups, Chamber of Commerce, REDI, other Boards and Commissions, City Staff (Planning Dept.), etc?  Will be on agenda for further discussion at next meeting.  Creation of Education/Outreach group will likely be involved in the planning of the summit and will report to the EC as a whole.

9. Other Issues
NW announced that Jim Wasilak was selected as the new Chief of Planning.  There will now be a vacancy for a Chief if Long Range Planning.

The EC discussed drafting a memo to the Mayor & Council for the purpose of assisting with the assignment of a new Council Liaison: this memo could briefly describe the goals of the Commission, and request that the Councilmember attend one pre-scheduled meeting per quarter for a 20 minute briefing / discussion.

• NW to look in to feasibility of such a memo.

CH would like to hold a meeting to discuss topics for other issue papers.  CH to send out email to set a date.

CH gave update on Community Garden Group – they are currently looking at additional possible locations for gardens.  One likely candidate is within King Farm, with space for roughly 30 plots.

10. Wrap-Up and Adjourn
Meeting adjourned at 9:15 pm.